Welcome to a special episode of the Asuka Cyclone Coach podcast. I'm coach Jonathan Lee and

If you can hear it probably sounds a little different than our studio this week and that's because

We are inside the specialized racing truck is that right? Yeah, and we're here

We're here at sea otter at the sea otter classic

It's and this is a festival of L things bikes

Racing is going on around us in every direction. They're vendors everywhere

It's a really cool time and I'm here with somebody that probably you've actually witnessed his work a lot

And you probably actually may have even seen him before especially if you watch cross country mountain biking

But you may not know who he is so Brad. What's up? How you doing? Hi, I'm Brad Goblin. I'm a mechanic. This specialized factory racing team

Typically I support primarily the cross country mountain bike efforts of our sponsored athletes

I also work very closely with our triathletes that we sponsor specialized being the sponsor

I dabble in the road as well as needed mostly I do that in house

But I travel with the triathlon and cross country mountain bike team awesome

So and that to be clear you're not just a normal mechanic you take care of the top athletes at specialized right?

That is true. I'm not normal in a lot of ways including as a mechanic, but

Certainly he has a great mustache

Some people feel definitely about the most

But we're worse it's there at the moment

I'm a wedding coming up in July, so it may or not be there in the June really but congrats. We'll see

So it's it's certainly a privilege for me to

Be able to work as Jonathan said with many of the top athletes in both disciplines

Of course right now we have former world champions

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